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Sun's Rich Green: Solaris-Linux Code Sharing Inevitable

"What changes did open-sourcing mean for your internal
development processes? Did you have to adapt to your products being
open source?

"Oh yeah. It was quite challenging. And I don't mean that
negatively, it's just that it requires a lot of changes, the
changes are all over the place. Whether it's moving from an
internal source code management system to something like Mercurial,
whether it's doing all the development outside of the firewall or
inside of the firewall, whether it's realizing that a significant
percent of your time has to be spent working with the community,
not just individually coding and then just delivering things to the
community. But working with the community, figuring out what needs
to be done and who should be doing what..."